Sir Richard Nanfan

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association with Wolsey

…later he became chaplain to Sir Richard Nanfan, deputy lieutenant of Calais, who recommended him to King Henry VII (reigned 1485–1509). When Nanfan died in 1507, Wolsey became Henry VII’s chaplain and, shortly before the king’s death in April 1509 he was appointed dean of Lincoln. His energy and self-confidence…